402 The Hunting Countries of England. 



on the hills of Bradnor to the north of Kington, and 

 Haro-est to the southwest. Stanner, which marks the 

 border line of the two counties, has a rocky hillside of 

 quite a different nature ; and, though a small stretch 

 of valley opens beyond, you are now fairly in Wales ; 

 with mountains and moorland, and names with many 

 consonants, looming in the near distance. To the 

 northward — above New Kadnor — foxhunting is vigor- 

 ously carried on, over hilltop and heather to the con- 

 fines of The United country. Eadnor Forest, indeed, 

 is very popular ground with the Hunt under notice. 

 The heather always carries a scent ; the upper ground 

 affords excellent riding. A few bogs may exist on 

 the summit ; but a Eadnorshire man does not often 

 find himself engulfed in a bog. Wire stretches here 

 and there over the sheepwalks of the Forest ; but its 

 ways are pretty well known, and its intervals easily 

 arrived at. Altogether the Radnor Forest is very 

 similar to the forest of Clun in the neighbouring 

 country. But w^herever heather-line is approached wire 

 fences are put up on the sheepwalks ; as, for instance, 

 on the comparatively low summit of Gladestry-hill. 

 To the south of this — and of Colva, where foxes 

 always live, though often difficult to find — the country 

 is rougher, higher and wilder, till it gradually becomes- 

 altogether unhuntable. Still hounds go frequently 

 across the Wye into the Bredwardine neighbourhood ; 

 and seldom fail to find a bold travelling fox in keep- 

 ing with the wild district beyond. As often as not he 

 will make his point across the highland right away to 

 the Black Mountain — a great rough height overlook- 

 ing the South Herefordshire country. Thus, curiously 



